Chamaecytisus supinus, (L.) Link

19. C. supinus (L.) Link View in CoL , Handb. 2: 155 (1831)

( Cytisus supinus L. ).

20-60(-120) cm; branches erect or ascending, rarely procumbent, patent-pubescent to villous or hirsute. Leaflets (10-) 15-35 x (5-)7-14 mm, elliptical, oblong or obovate, sparsely patentpubescent to subglabrous above, patent-pubescent beneath. Flowers in heads of 2-8(-10) (occasionally in racemes, in the vernal state, and then closely resembling members of the C. hirsutus group). Calyx patent-pubescent to hirsute. Corolla yellow; standard 20-25 mm, (17-21 mm in vernal state) usually brown-spotted. Legume 20-35 x 5-6 mm, oblong, patent-villous or lanate. C. & S. Europe, extending northwards to C. France, S. Germany and W. Ukraine. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (W) Tu.

Plants from Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland have been distinguished as Cytisus aggregatus Schur , Enum. Pl. Transs. 149 (1866), differing in their many-flowered capitula and in other floral features, but similar variants occur occasionally throughout the range of the species and a separation does not seem possible.